Month: December 2013

Do Something Different

If you want something different, do something different.  That’s the word I received tonight. A call to action that can’t be ignored heading into the new year.

What do you want to be different in the new year? What are you going to do different to get it?

Three Expectations for the New Year — These Can’t be Your Resolutions

Expectations are not rewarded, they’re punished. I made a good case for this in my article on the topic you can read here.

So this means you can’t use something that’s expected of you as a New Year’s Resolution.  New Year’s Resolutions must start with something beyond expectations to be meaningful.  Otherwise, why would you wait until the New Year to declare something you must work on every day to survive.

With that said, here are the baseline universal expectations.  Make sure none of these show up as one of your resolutions, and instead are part of your daily habits.

1. Exercising

2. Eating Right

3. Being Happy

Entrepreneurship as Art

Today I enjoyed a day at the museum with my family. There I came across a fascinating quote about art:

The act of artistic creation is a bit like looking at oneself in the mirror and leaving the reflection behind.

This quote was pulled from an inscription on the Jerry Pinkney exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art .

From my vantage point, entrepreneurship is very close to what this quote describes. The best entrepreneurs pour every bit of themselves into the process of designing a business model and serving customers. It’s often a reflection of the entrepreneur’s personal taste and character.

Marketing genius Seth Godin talks about entrepreneurship as art often. He has a few pithy blog post on the topic you can sample here and here.

Thinking of your business as art will inspire you.  It will allow you to open your mind to a canvas that you have complete creative control over.